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Australia - the only other potential candidate - decided not to enter the running, hinting it was futile to do so after being given less than a month by Fifa to mount a challenge.

The comments are a sign of Trump's growing frustration, as the White House's repeated efforts to negotiate a deal between Russia and Ukraine appear ever more futile.

Issuing fines against unregistered caravans is tricky, evicting them is expensive and, Ian says, futile.

And efforts to go down that futile path only lead to ever more draconian censorship, such as telling queer teachers to hide their spouses, while allowing straight teachers freedom to talk about theirs.

But whatever autonomy the young man can re-assert seems futile in the face of the Israeli occupation that hinders any sense of normalcy.